WEBVTT - It's Gooshing Up My Mouth 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.320 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:17.279 Arm Strong and Getty, and he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.759 It was quite striking to see several Democratic governors and 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.360 lawmakers say today that while they understand a father's concern 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.360 for his son, the president tarnished his legacy with the 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.240 interests of his family ahead of the country. They're also 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.120 worried it could embolden Trump to abuse the same clemency 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.080 powers once he takes office. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.000 I've always thought it was dumb, but as I get older, 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:48.239 certainly the whole tarnished legacy thing whatever, that's not the problem. 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.559 The problem for these Democrats is they were out there 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.720 on the campaign trail talking about the difference between our 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.360 party and their party is we believe in the justice 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.680 system and we accept the results. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:00.400 Oh we don't accept results. 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:05.960 Okay, No, not when it harms us, not when its right. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.280 Because it did harm the party, It harmed everything, harmed 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:12.800 the country, harmed the rule of law, certainly harmed the 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.320 Democratic Party in all their future arguments. 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:16.639 But it helped the Biden family. 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.760 And as we've made clear, and others will comment on 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.440 in this segment. It was it was far from just 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.720 commuting a sentence or or letting the boy off the 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.679 hook without fully feeling the weight of the consequences of 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:34.600 his actions. It is this bizarre Nixon on steroids, Like, yeah, 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.800 anything he did for eleven years, he can't get prosecuted 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.679 for anything, Like what, don't worry about it. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.200 I mean it is way beyond the page. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.240 Well, like John Stewart said on The Daily Show, the 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.800 bizarrely specific eleven years, what's that all about? 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.400 Yeah, well I can. I've got a pretty damn good idea. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.160 The year he signed on with Barisma and started traveling 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.080 the world on Air Force too, cutting deals and doing 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.600 crack uh with his dad and then siphoning ten percent 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.360 of the Big Guy to Uncle Jimmy. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.800 And everybody else. It's just it's it's so obvious. Please. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.440 As I said earlier, walks like a duck, quacks like 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.600 a duck, lays duck eggs that hatch into ducks. It's 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.560 DNA is beginning examined. It is duck DNA. And as 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.280 you said, it wrote a memoir. I am a duck. 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:20.320 My life is a duck. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:27.840 Quack quack quack, what you're about to hear is that 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.839 it's a duck back. Thank you, bro. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.840 Is an excerpt from nine minutes of this which I 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:37.680 kept thinking, all right, I got to turn this off. 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:42.120 But just who aired nine minutes of it? It's the internet? 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:46.520 The internet did. The Internet has endless time YouTube. You 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.600 want to watch two minutes, fine, you want to watch 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.200 all of it? Fine, Next we got duck. 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:51.640 Videos for you. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:56.040 Anyway, this is well, it's self evident what it is. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.040 Michael, unleash it and we'll see how much we enjoy this. Yeah, 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.640 shaid a bye. By the jury decision, I will do 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:02.799 that and I will. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.520 Not part letting the world know that he will not 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.520 wipe away the decision of twelve of his son's peers. 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.200 Was asked directly, and he has said he wouldn't pardon 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:13.679 his son if he gets convicted. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.679 Let's see what happens if he loves Yeah, but I mean, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:17.520 but he said it. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.200 He's going to get pardoned by his dad. There's no 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:23.160 question about that. The President has ruled out pardoning his son. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.760 Major commitment from the President accepting the outcome of the 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.560 trial and also pledging not to pardon his son. 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.120 But the challenge for him is really to continue to 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.800 live up to his values when it was really personal, 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:35.360 and he did that. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:35.680 Today. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.680 It seems like a pretty normal, straightforward answer, but it 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.200 takes new weight when we see what Trump is saying 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.080 about the outcome of his trial. We're hearing from the 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.960 Republicans who say they don't accept the jury's verdicture in 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:47.280 New York. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.920 The contrast is profound to sit there and say, well, 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.400 I'm not going to intervene in the legal process, and 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.040 I wouldn't pardon my son one side, Democrats and Joe 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:00.320 Biden protecting the justice system, and on the other Plicans 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:01.280 and Trump protecting Trump. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.520 Our current president of the United States has so much 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.720 respect for the law that he has said he would 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.840 not pardon his son. I mean, what you know, again, 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.480 it's all about the contrast. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.640 President Biden saying I will respect whatever this jury decides, 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.839 versus Donald Trump after he was convicted on thirty four counts, 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.680 saying the entire system is rigged against him. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.200 I need a cup of coffee. That was too rich, 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.520 that dessert was too rich. I need a quick cup 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.240 of coffee to cut through that, because it's gushing up 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.160 my mouth and so much of the. 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:37.520 Coverage yesterday the day before was couched in the hole 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:42.640 comparing it to Trump or Trump says or what about Trump? Well, 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:47.039 there is a very very good reason CNN is dying, 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:52.280 MSNBC is dying, and they all may soon go away 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:53.920 or become shelves of the former selves. 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.200 And the alphabet networks are heading in the same direction. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.960 Some of it is just the winds of change, but 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.719 we all feel the wins have change. The question is 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.800 do you adjust your sales, do you up your game? 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.720 Do you find a way to get better or at 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.839 least survive? And the answer for the alphabet networks and 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.800 especially the cable networks is no, absolutely not. They've doubled 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.479 down on the worst of their tendencies. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:14.520 Well know, I. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.760 Shouldn't be enjoying this so much, because there's there's a 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:23.600 decent chance that these people actually believed that their president 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.359 was going to do that, he was going to abide 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.560 by the Justice Department and followed the. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.360 Effort encountered Joe Biden before. 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:38.760 Seriously, the guy's a congenital liar, not a Joe. 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.400 I gotta admit I was shocked the first time, or 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.560 the most declarative time, because there's one time with David 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.000 Muir on ABC where he said it more specifically. David 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.680 Muir asked, have you made a decision? You've thought about it? 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.280 Have you thought about it? Made decision? I have thought 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.159 about it, and I've made a decision I will not 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.000 pardon my son. I thought that one was so like 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.359 declare arrative that left no none of that lawyerly wiggle 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.640 room ish anything, And I actually thought, Wow, that is 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.480 a heck of a thing. He's gonna let his son 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:14.680 go to prison just to show that, you know, there 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:15.719 are consequences. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:20.280 Yeah. No, NBC's reporting yesterday was all along. They were planning. 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.720 It was just they made the decision to go out 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.920 and claim they would pardon or not pardon them. 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:27.920 And then they would just figure out how to handle 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:28.719 it behind the scenes. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:34.400 Wow okay, Yeah, yeah, we just hold off the heat 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.400 until the act was done. And you know, at that point, 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.120 we're laying ducks. We're on our way out of here. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.719 And that's that's why everybody should be horrified by this, 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.440 because it just makes everybody that much more cynical. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:50.960 And why wouldn't it How does it not make you 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.240 more cynical? Wow? 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:57.120 It should, Yeah, it really should the Great Jonathan Turley 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.680 had a comment or two Michael Unleash forty one on 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:01.000 the good folks if you want. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.760 Well, you know, the president clearly is hoping that he's 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.760 given him this sweeping protection and that includes unnamed crimes 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.200 quite literally there, you know, Hunter Biden could have you know, 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.240 six heads in a duffel bag in his basement and 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.920 this would cover it as long as he committed those 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:21.600 murders during this ten year period. It would not protect him, 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.400 by the way from state charges. But it's a sweeping 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.840 a pardon that we haven't seen really the likes of 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.720 since Nixon. I. It's pretty unprecedented in that respect. The 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.280 problem is that Hunter could be called before Congress. Congress 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:40.080 has committees that are still looking into the influence peddling 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:45.040 scandal involving millions and millions of dollars. He could be 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.720 called to testify. Last time he did that, the House 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.800 accused him of being misleading even false in his testimony. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.760 If he commits perjury again, it's a new crime and 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.600 this pardon will not have an impact and he could 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.800 face a diition charges. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.920 Six heads in a duffel bag would be quite a story, 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:07.440 and his mass. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.200 Be heading a federal crime. I don't know. I'd have 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.720 to look that up, and Hunter could go, eh, walk 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:13.240 out the door. 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:20.480 Wow, totally. In a different clip we played earlier, called 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:24.160 the Bidens the Goats of Corruption, which really sounds like 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.440 either a protest metal band, as I said earlier, or 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:32.280 a I don't know, as a poorly received political novel. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.760 The Goats of corup maybe a biblical phrase. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:40.319 Yeah we God, yeah yahweh unleashed it on the Egyptians 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.000 for you know, the israelis too long. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.120 And then he said, with the goats of corrupt, he 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.440 saw the golden calf and realized they needed to be 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.880 teached to listen bit teached. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.240 Uh yeah, he's just talking about how and getting back 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:55.640 to the hole. 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.319 It walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.760 This is so obviously a dodge to protect the Biden 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.880 crime family, but they got away with it. I'm hoping 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.600 the story is told at some point the cosmic justice 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.400 of history reckoning with the Biden administration and the Biden 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:10.880 family as crooks. 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:12.120 That would be good enough for me. 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.680 I don't know, And maybe that's meaningless, but no, I 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:15.520 don't think it does. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:16.640 It is meaningless. 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.600 I think we've talked about this a lot, including earlier, 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.800 the importance of culture, and how culture is much more 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.679 massive and important and precious than we ever give it. Culture, 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.440 for evil doers have to be called out as evil doers, 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.680 even if they are moldering in the grave. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.840 Well, this is all pretty recent. I was looking at 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.120 a pol the other day. I should dig it up 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:47.840 because I screen captured the results. We think government will 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:52.760 do the right thing was like solid three quarters of 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.200 Americans up into the mid seventies. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:56.760 Yeah, so ours. 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:03.320 This cynicism about government is pretty damn new. Now you 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.320 could say, well, that's just because we were dumb and 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.000 didn't know what they were doing, and now we do 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.360 know what we're doing, so we rightly are cynical. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:16.040 Yeah. I suppose you could say that, But I don't know, 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:22.280 And I think there's more evil doing. I think, for instance, yeah, 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:22.120 I uh. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.160 And the way I would convince you is this, the 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:33.480 willingness to wildly overspend revenue is a moral failing. It's 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:38.200 it's not a merely a fiscally irresponsible thing. It is 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:42.000 a huge moral failing, and that just it shows a 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:43.440 moral route that that goes. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.520 I think it all sorts of directions, definitely, but that's 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.640 that's that's not illegal, and we do have some control 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.040 over that as voters and don't seem to care. But 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.480 as far as just like people being crooks, I always 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.040 remember this en I've tried to find it. 0:10:58.120 --> 0:10:59.880 I hope I remember it correctly because I've been saying 0:10:59.920 --> 0:11:03.679 it for years. This goes way back. Bill Clinton. 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.240 Was on Larry King on CNN, So this is back 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:09.880 in the day when that was sort of thing, and 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.880 they're talking about corruption and whatnot. And Bill Clinton asked 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.320 Bob Dole, who had been around d C for a 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.640 long time, do you think things are more corrupt now 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.720 or less corrupt or there's more of that going on 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.360 right now? And Bob Dole said, oh, much less, much 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.600 less now. It's just people know more about it, so 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.760 it seems like there's more. Ah, And I've always thought 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:38.559 about that that I could believe that's true, but I 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:43.160 don't know. I don't know, but certainly this isn't gonna 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.640 make a lot of people cynical, a whole new generation 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.960 of cynical between the Trump is the new Hitler And 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.120 as soon as the election's over, you're like, ay, whatever, 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.280 and I think I'll go have lunch at his house 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.960 and an in pardoning hunter. After all that talk about 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.599 we're the party who believes in the justice system, I 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.360 don't know. The next generation of young people are gonna 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.560 be pretty damn cynical. Two final notes from me. Number one, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.800 Apparently there is now available at the Armstrong in Getty 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:17.160 store a Goats of Corruption t shirt com It's a 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.760 nice font with a crown over the word goats. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:21.680 I believe I think that's a crown. Is that a 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.880 crowd is a crown? That is goats of corruption? The 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:25.640 Biden family. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.559 And my second comment is, actually these are all ecliped 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.280 number fifty four, Michael, these are all the leading lights 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:34.680 of the Democratic Party. 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.959 This nation was founded on the principle that there are 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.040 no kings in America. 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:44.079 Each each of us is equal before the law. No one, 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.640 no one is above the law. The fact is, no 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.360 one is above the law in this country. No one 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:52.560 is above the law. 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.199 The American principle that no one is above the law 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:57.559 was reaffirmed. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.960 Make no mistake, no one, not even the President of 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.360 the United States, is above the law. And my administration, 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.360 no one in no one is above the law. God. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:12.120 When Trump heard the news that Biden pardoned a hunter, 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:18.280 he had to be figuring, oh my god, is this unbelievable. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.240 Because now I thought I was shameless. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.880 He's seeking I can pardon myself now or pardon other people. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.679 And it has like ten percent of the sting it 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:33.040 would have had otherwise. Correct. Correct, So free pass. We 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:34.800 got to take a break. But a quick question, are 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.280 there more to come? Do you think Joe Partons's brother 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.360 or anybody else involved in any of this stuff? 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:41.120 Entirely possible? Yeah. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.280 He will issue a bunch of you know, twelve hour, 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.640 eleventh hour pardons, as all presidents do, and some of 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:49.400 them could be family. 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:49.559 Really. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.200 Yeah, he does those midnight pardons, and then you know, 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.480 you got the whole day one. Donald Trump going after 0:13:55.520 --> 0:14:00.199 the border deportion or whatever deportation. That'll that'll just off 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.480 out any any knowledge of the Biden pardons. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.640 More on the way, Stay here, Bob, I'm strong, and 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:07.880 Getty says who. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:09.920 Bob Doll says, who. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:12.079 Strong. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.880 Painsley on Fox and Friends or whatever that show is 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.520 is wearing leather pants today. And I noticed that, as 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.600 as a guy who notices this sort of thing, leather 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:23.640 pants seem to be a thing. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:23.800 I know. 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.360 There was quite a few women wearing leather or full 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.920 leather pants this leather fall season. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.520 Yes, it's back and better than ever leather pants. That's 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:38.920 the pleasure of wearing them. Yeah, yeah, you've never warned 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.120 them yourself. No, no, I have not. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.520 I have not either. Are you wearing leather pants, hedy, 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:44.240 I can't see. 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.920 Uh, I am not wearing leather pants, and I do 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:48.720 not recommend it. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:52.400 I have before, and it's not a fun time chafing. No, 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.840 it's just hot and not comfortable. Okay, they look hot though, 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:02.600 that's what I hear. Look awesome. Oh my, this is troubling. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.440 Perhaps we should just move on. HR is walking down 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:06.040 here right now. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:10.640 Yeah, so I want to apologize. I really booted one yesterday, 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.120 as the Baseball Reference booted a ground ball. We were 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.360 talking about the Doge Commission and their efforts to save 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.640 money on the federal budget, and we were talking about 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.640 how much of the budget is mandatory spending Medicare, Medicaid, 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.880 social Security, et cetera. And then you've got your discretionary 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.200 spending and you can rain that in a lot and 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.960 the Pentagon and all. And I went too softly on 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.880 a couple of things. I mean, like way too softly 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:43.120 making the Pentagon more efficient. We did talk about making 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.920 sure it's not about the military industrial complex. It's about 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:47.960 the foreign policy and the fighting men and women in 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.320 the United States incredibly important. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:51.680 So. 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.520 Let's put that aside. But getting back to Medicare and 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.840 Medicaid in particular, and to a lesser extent, social Security. 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.160 I had semi spaced off a. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.080 Couple of stories that I've been sitting on wanting to 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.800 bring up for a long time, including this one. Insurers 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:14.760 collected billions from Medicare for veterans who cost them almost nothing. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.800 These are veterans who have Medicare as kind of a backup, 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:24.080 but they get Vacare, but they're insurers. Their Medicare advantage. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.840 Insurers get many thousands of dollars a year to cover 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.160 the cost of things that never happen. And then there 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.880 was a story that the Wall Street Journal covered not 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:41.680 long ago about this incredible rampant fraud industry where insurance 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.600 companies that are billing the government send a nurse to 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.920 Old Joe Getty's house and they say, hey, old Joe Getty, 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:49.720 show me your elbow. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:50.560 Do that would you. 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:55.800 Oh my gosh, you got old guy elbow syndrol, and 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.920 we're gonna need to get paid one thousand dollars a 0:16:58.000 --> 0:16:58.760 month to treat. 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.160 That, but they never treat it. It's an enormous scam. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.960 So yeah, what I didn't really bring up, we didn't 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.960 talk about is we need to institute a culture of 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:12.080 accountability and efficiency in our mandatory programs. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:16.640 I love that sounds fantastic, Armstrong and getty. 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.359 Despite the crowds, the TSA says Laser focused on the 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.240 biggest threat to America liquids over three ounces. 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:26.160 It's true. 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.960 On their social media, they posted this photo featuring confiscated 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.440 water bottles and one bottle of ranch dressing. 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:39.320 You know, you just know, you know. 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.480 There was there was some dad who tried to chug 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.960 the whole thing before giving it up. I paid for this, 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.240 damn it, and I'm not gonna waste the kids you 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:50.119 get to work on the thousand Island? Does anyone have 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.320 any salary? 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.400 Are the three ounces for liquids similar to the six 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:57.560 feet apart for COVID? 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:01.760 Just like a random number might be no flowed down 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:03.560 to that one plot to combine. 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.399 If that was one God hadn't tried to light his 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.119 shoes on fire, nobody'd be taking their shoes off. I mean, 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.119 so it's just all these the reactions to a single 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.560 plot that live on for the rest of our lives. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:19.720 I guess, all eternity. So it would seem all of eternity. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:20.359 I hope not. 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.560 I could question before we get to some news. You're 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.080 talking about discretionary spending in the government. I have discretionary 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:30.639 spending in my own life, as. 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:32.919 Most people do. Yeah, And I. 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:39.119 Made a threat with my kids, and I you know, 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:40.960 I had backed myself into a situation where I was 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:42.919 gonna have to follow through on it or all my 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:48.640 future threats would be hollow. Obviously, that particularly with one 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.280 of my sons if he didn't come up with stuff 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.840 to do other than looking at a screen. I was 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.840 gonna get rid of all of our streaming services. I'm 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:58.560 just gonna get rid of them. I mean, if if 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:02.320 you can't discipline yourself to do something, what should I do? 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.600 And then I always make a list, read a book, 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:10.080 play an instrument, walk the dog, exercise, color right, draw, 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.040 build something. I mean, it's all the things human beings 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.560 have been doing since the dawn of time. There are 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:21.119 things to do other than watching the screen, and so 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.760 it's probably gone on way too long. And so I 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.679 followed through on the threat and I canceled everything. Now 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.760 you can't canceled immediately, or maybe you can, if you 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.520 do know how to do that, let me know. But 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:32.440 I mean, I suppose I could get rid of the TV, 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.119 but I need to watch the news. But I canceled 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:36.800 all the services, so they'll all end in the next 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:37.480 couple of weeks. 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.440 They have various start dates, so in the next couple 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:39.720 of weeks. 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:43.600 My Netflix, my Hulu, my Paramount, my HBO, Max, my Eye, 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:44.360 I have all of them. 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:45.320 I canceled them all. 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:50.920 Wow, Amazon, Apple, Yeah, I canceled them all, So it'll 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.040 be that's discretionary spending. It was kind of interesting how 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.440 much it added up to. It was several hundred dollars 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.360 a month. Oh boy, Oh, I so need to do that. 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.480 I mean, some form of it. But I hardly ever 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:04.879 watch them at all, and it was kind of a 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.920 drag last night. Henry went to bed early and I thought, yeah, 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:12.840 maybe i'll watch another I don't, but I don't watch 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.080 them that much, and so it'll be interesting to see 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.440 what life is like without any of those streaming services. 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:23.639 I swear there's some sort of insidious, practically supernatural plot 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:28.480 to make sure that the shows we're interested in, Jen 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.200 and I we almost always watched together, they will touch 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.760 on each of the stream right, exactly, we haven't watched 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:38.000 a damn thing on Hulu for the longest time. All right, 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.280 it's time to cancel what only murders in the building. 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.040 Out with the new season? It's on what is it 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:43.919 on Hulu? 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:44.520 Right? 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:47.480